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Self-care is about taking purposive and intentional actions to improve your well-being. What that looks like for each of you will vary but the common thread is recognizing that you are a priority and that you deserve to spend/allocate time to improving and securing your well-being.
With the start of a new calendar year and a new semester, it seems fitting to think about how being organized can contribute to your well-being. By organization, I am talking both about the organization of your physical space as well as your time, how you allocate minutes and hours to your many responsibilities including intentional efforts to engage in self-care activities that benefit your well-being. Toward this end, I provide you below with several articles.
If you are not already using a calendar--whether an electronic calendar or a physical calendar--I highly recommend that you do so to help ensure that the time you are spending on things matches the priorities of your various commitments. Calendars and day planners can help to reduce stress by getting your myriad commitments and responsibilities out of your head and on paper, helping to reduce mental clutter and thus often making what you have to do seem more manageable.
"Why Being Organized is a Form of Self-Care" can be accessed by clicking on this hyperlinked text
"Practice Self-Care Through Organization" can be accessed by clicking on this hyperlinked text